My Murple

[MikkiJayne]

They're a repair process for those studs yes, if you can make them work. An expensive experiment though. Numbers below, all £10-15 each.



I filled in the hole - forgot to take a pic, but I cut a piece of aluminium plate to fit inside the hole, epoxied that in place, and then epoxied over all of it so its a 1/4" thick composite now. Once this has dried I'll sand it flat and seam seal over it.



I managed to get the broken PS pipe support out by trimming all the rubber off it and then grabbing it with the vise grips.



The crusty servotronic solenoid



Amazingly, the bolts came loose without too much of a fight



There's a tiny gauze filter in here. NLA, as are all the o-rings and the solenoid itself



The filter has collected some detritus



Cleaned very carefully!



This is a BMW solenoid - its a straight fit as both are made by ZF, but this one has a connector on it rather than trailing wires. I'll make up a simple adapter cable so it plugs in like the original.



I put something back on the car at last!



I extracted the scrivet and replaced it with a rivnut, since there was already a hole in the sheet metal anyway. This extra 15-20mm of clearance makes removing and fitting the rack 1000000% easier! It just drops in to place now, instead of 20 minutes of wiggling it about to get it past the stud. If doing the rack with the engine in the car this simple mod would make a significant difference to the job.